Calculating Delilah

If she was even half as pretty as Hedy Lamarr, who played her in Cecil B.
DeMille’s 1949 film, it is easy to see why Samson was fascinated with
Delilah. Fascinated too, over the centuries, were those many readers of Holy
Scripture who found in the tragic romance of Delilah and the Danite the stuff
of (as Milton remarks) “Acts enroll’d/ In copious Legend, or sweet
Lyric Song.”

However, the romance was mainly on Samson’s side, it would seem. While
the Bible asserts that he loved Delilah (Judges 16:4), it does not even faintly
hint that she loved him. Much less do the pair appear to have been married.
Milton’s Samson Agonistes is an exception in regarding them as
such, though Ch
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